Publications by authors named "M B Smolkin"
Background: Predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), e.g., programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) tumor proportional score (TPS), remain limited in clinical applications.
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- The study examines the relationship between high levels of inspired oxygen fraction during one-lung ventilation in thoracic surgery and the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs).
- It analyzes data from over 2,700 surgeries across four US medical centers, finding that 5.2% of procedures resulted in PPCs, with some association between higher inspired oxygen and these complications.
- Ultimately, the results suggest that limiting oxygen levels to prevent PPCs may not be necessary, as the duration of one-lung ventilation appears to be a more significant risk factor.
We derive a scheme by which to solve the Liouville equation perturbatively in the nonlinearity, which we apply to weakly nonlinear classical field theories. Our solution is a variant of the Prigogine diagrammatic method and is based on an analogy between the Liouville equation in infinite volume and scattering in quantum mechanics, described by the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. The motivation for our work is wave turbulence: A broad class of nonlinear classical field theories are believed to have a stationary turbulent state-a far-from-equilibrium state, even at weak coupling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Operative risk for supra-aortic trunk (SAT) surgical revascularization for occlusive disease, particularly transthoracic reconstruction (TR), remains ill-defined. This study sought to describe and compare 30-day outcomes of TR and extra-anatomic (ER) SAT surgical reconstruction for an occlusive indication across the United States over a contemporary 15-year period.
Methods: Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, TR and ER performed during 2005-2019 were identified.